Tim Walz offers to host events in districts where GOP refuse to hold town halls

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) offered to host town halls in districts where Republicans are now refusing to hold them.

“That’s a shame,” Walz said, responding to the GOP news. “If your Republican representative won’t meet with you because their agenda is so unpopular, maybe a Democrat will.”

“Hell, maybe I will,” he continued in a post on social platform X. “If you congressman refuses to meet, I’ll come host an event in their district to help local Democrats beat ‘em.”

National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) advised House Republicans to avoid in-person town halls with constituents and instead to host phone or livestreamed events.

The advice comes after constituents and activists shook up GOP events, expressing frustration about the recent actions from the Trump administration to overhaul the federal workforce. Some events in Texas, Wisconsin and Georgia were disrupted by people who have shown growing concern about the administration and its Department of Government Efficiency slashing federal spending.

GOP lawmakers say the disruptions are stemming from Democrats and Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have suggested that they “paid ‘troublemakers,’” who were looking to go viral.

Democrats criticized the advice and questioned if Republicans strategy was to shut out those who opposed with their action.

“So House Republicans’ political strategy is ‘see no families nor workers,’ ‘hear no protesters,’ speak to no one’ and hope everyone gets less angry at them when they rip away Americans’ health care? Got it,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Viet Shelton said.

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